I had to reset my computer to factory settings and now do not have the QNAP software on my laptop to connect with my NAS and I don't know how to reconnect it.

Advice, Ideas, Suggestions?

I currently have three NAS devices, at my two houses, and I’m going to be upgrading them.

At one house, I have two Synology boxes.

My first was/is a 220J. I quickly outgrew it, it has two 10tb Iron Wolf drives in SHR. I was using it for Plex and Audio Station, but I’m moving all of my Plex to my other NAS.

About the only upgrade I could do to this box is replace the drives with larger ones (maybe 16tb). Regardless, I don’t have a lot of use for this NAS anymore.

I purchased a second Synology, a 1821+ and I’m pretty happy with it. So far, I’ve installed 4 16tb Seagate Exos drives. It serves Plex to me and my friend that lives in my building, and it could also serve my Audio Station. I’m running Wyze Bridge on it via Docker, and I plan to run Home Kit and Home Assistant on it in the future.

Upgrade Plans:

Drives: l plan on getting two DX517’s when I run out of storage (Drive Space). Should I start buying larger drives like the 20tb exos’s, filling the remaining 4 slots with larger drives, and then start moving drives over to the DX517’s once I fill up the 1821+? That seems like the logical thing to do. I plan to make each box have its own volume.

Memory: l plan upgrade the memory. Currently, I’m thinking about getting the Crucial, 32gb kit, but should I consider upgrading to 64gb?

Network Card: I’d like to get a 10gb card, with two NVME slots.

NVME: I’d like to fill my two NVME slots as well. This leads to the question, what size, and what configuration? I’m thinking about one set for Read/Write Cache, and one set for the storage pool. Obviously, I’d like the biggest size I can afford for the storage pool, maybe a pair of 4gb? I’m not really sure how big I should make my Cache drives though. I’m a fan of overkill, but I don’t want to waste money either.

Finally, is there a difference where I put them? For example, the storage pool in the box and the cache on the network card, or vice versa?

At this location, I don’t own anything more than a single 5 Port Ethernet hub, so I’ll need to get something capable of 10gb, plus an adapter for my laptop. I’m on the fence about managed/unmanaged, but with SMB Multichannel, I might consider unmanaged.

Next up, is my main house, where I have a Qnap TVS-H874 (the i5 with 32gb).

Drives: I currently have 4 18tb drives installed. As before, wondering if I should switch to larger and move drives into expansion boxes when the time comes.

Two expansion slots, three wants: I’d like to get a TL-D1600S box, and that would take up one slot. Then, I’d like to add a 10gb card with 2 NVME slots. But it would be cool to have a dedicated GPU also.

NVME: Same story as my Synology, the only difference is that on the box, I have the 4.0 instead of the 3.0. That said, once again, what do I put where?

First world problems, I know. I’m just curious to hear what others think. Hopefully I’ll buy everything I mentioned, but who knows, maybe I’ll come to my senses… Or maybe my wife will figured out how much money I spend on this stuff.

Oh, and I just learned about the Qnap Guardian series.

Hi,

I was searching a lot do you please see any benefit of buying DC HC570 vs DC HC560? It seems 570 has Armor Cache, but maybe it's a marketing gimmick. 570 is 80 EUR more expensive than older generation (2021) 560 (there are 2 versions). It also seems WD says HC570 has 2nd generation OptiNAND whatever it means...Power consumption is higher for 570, by adding 2TBs maybe it's actually not worth it...
I will use it in 916+ Synology mainly for storing photos

thanks a lot to everyone for anwers

Dear NAS Compares, I have a synology MR2200AC router, and a second MR2200AC connected as a mesh router. CONTROL PANEL--SYSTEM indicates that my SRM version is SRM 1.2.5-8227 Update 8, and that my "SRM version is up-to-date". I think I can manually update the router by going to synology Download Center (https://www.synology.com/en-global/support/download/MR2200ac?version=1.3#system), and installing two patches to get the 1.3.1-9346 upgrade. I see how to do this for the main router by going into CONTROL PANEL--SYSTEM--MANUAL SRM Update. I assume that both the main router and the second/mesh router need to be running the same SRM. How to I updated the second/mesh router to SRM 1.3.1-9346...? Thanks in advance for any help that you can provide... James

Desperate for help on selecting 4 hard drives to go into new Synology DS 423+ NAS. The Ironwolf Pro ST12000NE0008 seems to be the best option? Noise is a factor but obviously not as important as reliability. WD Red plus WD120EFBX seems like a valid alternative? Many thanks in advance for your help.

Hi, I'm looking for a 2-bay NAS for home. The main applications would be photos/videos storage, Android gallery backup, PC backup, modest streaming via Plex (1080p max for a while), modest torrent download. I'd install 2 pieces of 4TB HDDs in RAID1 for redundancy. I was looking at QNAP TS-233 and looking at this price range or a little above. I'm a little worried its hardware wont be enough. I watched the Terramaster F2-423 review and I like it but it's just tad more than I wish to pay. I found the F2-223 quite promising as it's a little cheaper than the F2-423 with really good specs. I'm just not sure about TM's software side. I saw the TOS5 is slightly getting better but I'd like good experience and usable android app for photo backup. Would you still recommend TM, QNAP or something else? Do you plan to review the mentioned T2-223? Hope I was clear enough. Thank You in advance!

I have subscribed to your channel for nearly 2 years and bought a TerraMaster F5-221. with two Seagate IronWolf 10TB NAS Hard Drives and I think I have set it up as Raid 1.
Being a newbie to NAS I thought that I would be able to add more storage as and when I needed it, I save Old Time Radio Broadcasts and have a collection dating back to 1920’s. I now have only 5% left and I wish to increase my storage. Can I add 2 x 14Tb NAS drives on top of the ones I have? Or will I lose my data from the original setup?

I've been using a DS1513+, DS1515+ and a DS3018xs over the last few years, I absolutely love them, the DS3018xs is for Plex , it’s ok for normal stuff up to 1080p, but no good for 4k.

I have a question regarding HDD setup on my new setup I am going to purchase soon.
I am looking at the following Synology setup:
Either a DS3622xs+ or a DS1823xs+ (I’ll put in an extra 8gb memory)
One 2TB ssd drive as Pool 1 (to be used for DSM and applications)
Four 14TB drives as Pool 2 using SHR (for storing all movies/TV shows, expanding as I need).
Two 1TB M.2 drives for Cache

I’m not sure if my thinking of putting DSM on a separate SSD is viable or not, I’m hoping it would give Plex a nice big jump in performance.
I was hoping Synology would have something similar in performance to the QNAP H874.
Unfortunately, I really love the Synology products I have so I’d like to stay with them, I just can’t find a beefy system like the QNAP….he says with a tear in his eye.
Thanks

Greetings guys, many thanks for your vlogs/inputs. I saw B&H in USA on your website. Apart from shipping charges, could you guide me about UK duty charges for NAS items....in some sort of 'ballpark' (withoutseagulls) estimate?

Cheers,

Iain.

Loving the YT videos. Discovered your channel this evening after searching for a NAS solution.

My current setup (WD Mybook 12TB (6TB mirrored) is nearly full. It houses all my RAW files from the last 6 years.

As I understand it, I am leaning towards a Synology DS923+ and want to fill it as much as I can afford. Possibly Ironwolf 8TBs (not pro) equalling 32TB total.

My understanding is that I should use RAID5 to make one of the drives as a protection drive leaving me with 24TB of actual storage.
Is RAID5 a good approach for my work?

I'm not the most complicated use case, simply need safe storage for my work that I can access easily. Up until now, it has been the My Book Duo which I then back up onto 2 other external HDs for peace of mind. I would like a NAS as (if I am correct) it will offer me a redundancy if one drive failed.
I'm only just learning this NAS work and so there's a lot of info, if you can advise that would be amazing.
Thanks so much
Gareth